Quotes about Connection

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character.

It is only in orienting his life to the divine center that a person can secure anything else he desires and yet not be based upon it.

When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It's an entirely different paradigm. Empathic (from empathy) listening gets inside another person's frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world, you understand their paradigm, you understand how they feel.

There are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

Probably the most important deposit you could make would be just to listen, without judging or preaching or reading your own autobiography into what he says. Just listen and seek to understand. Let him feel your concern for him, your acceptance of him as a person.

Grandparents who show a great interest in their grandchildren are among the most precious people on this earth. What

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

Not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.